Presence in Absence

Human life is an intimate reflection of the great cycles of nature, universal, perennial and all-pervasive. Of most significance to us here on earth are the sun and moon, their locus and path in the sky, linked to the arrival, change and departure of the seasons – all existence on earth depends upon this eternal, unstoppable and regular movement that is a manifestation of reet, cosmic ‘truth’ or ‘order’.

And they occasionally unite through dramatic superimposition, as in the radiant shock of full eclipse when day is transformed into night. It is all one process – expansion and contraction, dispersion and compression, emanation and dissolution. Priya Ravish Mehra aesthetic is a symbolic affirmation of the place, significance and act of existential ‘repair’ in the corroded fabric of any life, as well as in the life of any corroded fabric.